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Executive Job-Changing Workbook

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I'm a career counselor and an outplacement consultant. At the executive level, Lucht's Rites of Passage (use the 2001 edition which covers the Internet) and its companion, The Executive Job-Changing Workbook, are the only two tools I insist my clients use. The Workbook helps them crystalize what to say in their resume and in interviews. It also shows them how to soft-pedal their deficiencies. I find that using both books together helps my counseling tremendously. Incidentally, the Workbook splits into two books, both with a plain white cover, so an employer won't accidentally see the candidate is using a commercial resource, when he/she opens his/her attache to pull out a resume. Clever! People carry the second half to interviews and fill in its "debriefer" forms with everything they find out from each person in round-one of interviews. They do this as soon as they get out of the employer's parking lot . This information, captured while it's fresh in mind, is reviewed to prepare for second-round interviews. Employers always tell you everything they hope for in a perfect candidate. If you parrot that back in your second-round interview, you'll defeat everyone who doesn't. This Workbook is an amazing help to the executive-level job-seeker. It's a "secret weapon" I don't think most people know about. I always insist they use it if they're going to work with me.

This is a workbook based on John Lucht's book "Rites of Passage at $100,000+". It offers a way to organize your job search, including skills inventory, resume building, cover letter writing, contact management, etc. It can be used without the $100,000+ book, but ideally is used as a companion to the book.
Lucht's system outlined in the book is very narrow, advocating a mail campaign as the most important part of the job search. This workbook expands on that a fair bit, offering more resume and cover letter examples and a series of worksheets. The content is well thought out, especially the worksheets. If your plan is to organize your own work search, you can do everything with this one book - resume, cover letter, networking, interview skills, and negotiation. There are thousands of executive job searching books out there, but if you wanted to buy just one, this would be the one.

For great advice on what to expect when you work with a executive recuiter read chapters 7-10. Its worth the price of the book alone. Out of work high-level executives and those who want to make a solid change in their career need to read this book in order to sound smart and learn what to expect from good and bad headhunters.

As a senior officer transitioning from the military to the civilian sector, John Lucht's workbook is the best I've found for folks in our category. When used in combination with his Rites of Passage "textbook" and his website at RiteSite.com, you have a complete resource package to guide your efforts.

Absolutely a must have, John helps you understand the recruiter's "agenda". I continue to use it as a reference tool and have emphatically recommended it to others searching for a new career.

It makes no sense to purchase this workbook without "Rites of Passage", the companion job search book by John Lucht. If you purchase this workbook on its own to try and save money, you'll find youself going back to order Rites of Passage anyway.

This workbook is extremely useful at helping you put structure around following the advice dispensed in "Rites". It forces you to put down your thoughts using a logical and organized approach. This leads you to constructing a far superior resume and cover letter than you would have done otherwise.

A very valuable tool for someone seeking a new job in the $100K+ range.

I read the book and loved it. When I bought the work book, my first thought was that this was just some kind of book '0 forms. Much like what you would find in a stationary store or at an office supply store. But I was wrong. This book is really two books. The work book is designed to be cut into two different books. One is a record book that enables you to track your entire job hunting campaign. The other book, and in my opinion, the most important, enables you to create an absolutely magnificant resume. If you loved the book, then this work book is an absolute must.

However, I must caution you that the workbook is, indeed, a lot of work. And so to really use the book, you must use the workbook. And to use the workbook, you need to exert effort. The rewards are great. This is a dynimite combination. He is really something else. I recommend this book very highly.

The Executive Job-Changing Workbook by John Lucht is a Companion to Rites of Passage. It has numerous forms that are very useful in organizing a job search. It is clear, easily usable, and helps one control the organization of a varied job search. It is very cleaverly designed to take apart so that you can take one section in a briefcase on interviews. This helps recording and tracking search letters, phone calls, interviews, and thank you letters. A great help in a time consuming process.

Mr. Lucht has written the most practical, informative and easy to use executive job-changing tools on the market. It is a best kept secret (if you are one of the $5000+ "career coaching" firms)that for under $70 you get more guidance and real knowledge with Mr. Lucht's #1 world's bestselling book "Rites of Passage" and with this "Executive Job-Changing Workbook" than you will with many of these expensive career firms flooding the market today. This book receives my highest recommendation.
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This book is simply a compilation of repackaged material that anyone with common sense could write down on a piece of paper. The anecdotes are hokey and the BOLD ALL CAPS punch lines are simply there to take up space. Save yourself some money by sitting down and taking the time to think of how to package yourself in your job search. Also, Mr. Lucht makes sure that his self promotion is woven throughout the book. The kicker is that the book is simplisticly and exasperatingly written in a kind of folksy style. My advice: find someone that you or one of your friends knows who has changed careers, take them out to lunch and pick their brain.